NC Director is Happy to Allow the Criminally Insane and Mentally Retarded to Vote

North Carolina made national news when it was reported the criminally insane and the mentally retarded were casting votes in the 2012 general election.  The director of these facilities stated he is proud to allow the incompetent to vote, and will continue the "diseased of mind" to have a say in the electoral process.  Carolina Journal reported the following:

J. Luckey Welsh, director of the Division of State Operated Healthcare Facilities at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Carolina Journal there are about 3,000 people residing in the state facilities. Voting records obtained by CJ showed only 73 individuals from six facilities cast votes that were accepted for the Nov. 6 election. Sixty-one of those voters were new registrants. “I think we allowed our citizens the right to vote. I am happy we allowed them to do it,” he replied.

Most of the wards in a state mental hospital have been committed.  However, law dictates that the “institutionalized” have rights:

Many residents in state facilities have been declared incompetent by a judge, and have been assigned guardians to make their decisions. A North Carolina law governing persons with the treatment of persons with mental health and developmental disabilities, G.S. 122 C-58, states that “each adult client of a facility keeps the same right as any other citizen of North Carolina to exercise all civil rights, including the right to dispose of property, execute instruments, make purchases, enter into contractual relationships, register and vote, bring civil actions, and marry and get a divorce, unless the exercise of a civil right has been precluded by an unrevoked adjudication of incompetency.”

Based on the above language, some guardians of persons who have been judged incompetent believe their wards have lost the right to vote.

In 1973, then-state Attorney General Robert Morgan’s office issued an opinion saying that the state constitution does not prohibit the incompetent from voting. Since then, North Carolina apparently has allowed persons judged incompetent to vote.

I would say anyone who voted for Barack Obama is an incompetent, but that’s just my personal opinion.  Here are the facilities that allowed the “diseased of mind” to vote; again reported by the Carolina Journal:

Voters by facility

State Board of Elections records examined by CJ show voting activity in six of the 14 facilities.

• J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center in Morganton: eight voters (five new registrations), all voted by mail.

• Murdoch Developmental Center in Butner: 12 voters (all registered on Oct. 11), 11 early voting, one voted in person on election day.

• Black Mountain Neuro-Medical Treatment Center: four voters (one new registration), all early voting.

• Broughton Hospital in Morganton: 17 voters (12 new registrations), all voted by mail. Registrations totaled 81.

• Central Regional Hospital in Butner: 22 voters (all new registrations), 10 voted by mail, 12 used early voting. Registrations totaled 63.

• Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro: 10 voters (nine new registrations), three voted by mail, six used early voting, one voted in person. Total registrations were 34 with 21 of them new

 

Source:  http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9774

The Criminally Insane and Mentally Retarded Voted in North Carolina

Holy cow!  This has to be the mother of all registration drives.  The criminally insane and mentally retarded have flown the cuckoo’s nest in North Carolina and voted.  Wendell Justice Williams murdered two people in 1995.  A judge found him not guilty because he was insane; but apparently he’s sane enough to vote.  I wonder who he voted for.  Could it be Obama? Hmmm?

This isn’t just an isolated case.  Apparently this is happening across the whole state.  Carolina Journal reported the following:

Efforts to register mental patients and residents of centers for the developmentally disabled have taken place in recent months in several locations around the state.

Employees of the Murdoch Developmental Center, a state-run facility in Butner for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled, recently registered 36 of the more than 500 residents to vote in what appears to have been a voter registration drive at the facility. In addition, some residents were checked out of the facility and transported to early voting centers to cast votes.

As of Oct. 30, eight of the center’s residents had voted in person at one of the two early voting sites in Granville County, Carolina Journal has learned. One of the sites is at the Creedmoor City Hall, four miles from the Murdoch Center. The residents voted at the early voting locations on five different days.

Registration activities also appear to have taken place at two other centers serving those with extreme developmental disabilities — the Riddle Developmental Center in Morganton and the Caswell Developmental Center in Kinston.

And what law allows the criminally insane and mentally disabled to vote?  Why it’s the same one that allowed illegal aliens to register to vote:

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993

A July 2009 guide to disability rights laws published by the U.S. Department of Justice includes a section on the NVRA, aka the Motor Voter Act. “One of the basic purposes of the act is to increase the historically low registration rates of minorities and persons with disabilities that have resulted from discrimination,” the guide says. “The Motor Voter Act requires all offices of state-funded programs that are primarily engaged in providing services to persons with disabilities to provide all program applicants with voter registration forms, to assist them in completing the forms, and to transmit completed forms to the appropriate State official.”

I’m reminded of the saying that the people get the government they deserve.  Considering what has happened in the last four years, it looks like the inmates are running the asylum. 

 Source:  http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9635